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OK so I had an issue with some comment spam and ended up with a little over 30,000 comments between my unapproved, spam, and trash in my Wordpress comments – FTW! Would have taken me a week to move them all to trash and then delete them.
Read MoreRan across a PowerCLI script that can be used to shutdown your virtual infrastructure written by Alan Renouf and thought
Read MoreBack in 2006 VMware HA was the technology that really sold me on virtualizing production workloads. I thought virtualization was a pretty neat technology that was well suited for testing and development but in a production environment it still seemed like you were putting all your eggs in one basket. A pre-sales VMware Engineer did a demo of HA by shutting down a running host to simulate a failure. Within a minute or so the VMs running on the host rebooted on another host and I have been hooked ever since.
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Several people have asked me about what I am using for a lab so I put together this post about the lab I used to study for the VCP 5 exam. I also used this lab set up when studying for my VCAP4-DCA exam.
Read MoreThis morning I sat for and PASSED the VMware Certified Professional Exam on vSphere 5 (VCP510). If I had to sum up the VCP 5 Exam in a single word that word would be tough.
Read MoreI had some maintenance to do on my central syslog server and the server was down for about 30 minutes
Read MoreIf you are looking to fulfill the training requirements necessary to obtain your VCP but you don’t have the time (or cash) to dedicate to a straight week of VMware instructor led training check with your local community college or technical school they may participate in the VMware IT Academy Program. The VMware IT Academy Program or VITA allows qualified schools to offer VMware training.
Read MoreI had my vSphere 4.1 ESXi hosts set up to send logs to a central syslog server. After the upgrade
Read MoreITN-213, Information Storage Management, is part of the Virtualization Career Studies Certificate Program at TCC. With enrollment in the course
Read MoreLast night my vCenter server ran out of disk space. The transaction log for the vCenter DB filled until there
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VMware Power Management or Distributed Power Management (DPM) powers down hosts when resources are not needed and powers the host
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